beat out by U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (16,018) and Rutgers (15,870).

Incidentally, all 3 are a member of the American Association of Universities.

beat UC Irvine (15,435), UCLA (14,533), Penn State (13,433), and Harvard (12,993), and others, ending with Franciscan School of Theology (5).

1,263 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Michigan State is in East Lansing, MI, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has an electrician program, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is osteopathic medicine/osteopathy, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews MBA ranking (43rd place)
• USNews law school ranking (80th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (83rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (85th place)
• ARWU world ranking (92nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (320th place)
• research spending ($313.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($98,696)
• endowment per full-time student ($40,702)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,094)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,211)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,427)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,555)
• research spending per student ($5,873)
• cost of a shared room ($3,500)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (150.5%)
• full-time retention rate (91%)
• undergrads among full-time students (76.6%)
• in-state freshmen (73.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (47%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (24%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.2%)
• minorities (15%)
• foreign students (11.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.8%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.9%)
• Hispanics (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (274)
• average January temperature (23.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (15,442)
• first-year applicants (30,224)
• foreign students (6,358)
• full-time grad students (8,369)
• full-time undergrads (34,196)
• grad students (11,429)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (7)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (8)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (16)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,840)
• undergrads (37,354)
• yearly for-credit students (53,371)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.85)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (32.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.20)
• elevation (261 meters)

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